It is foolish to pluck out one's hair for sorrow, as if grief could be assuaged by baldness.

Let war yield to peace, laurels to paeans.

Always the same thing.

To wonder at nothing when it happens, to consider nothing impossible before it has come to pass.

Thus in the beginning the world was so made that certain signs come before certain events.

Study carefully, the character of the one you recommend, lest their misconduct bring you shame.

It is a man's own dishonesty, his crimes, his wickedness, and boldness, that takes away from him soundness of mind; these are the furies, these the flames and firebrands, of the wicked.